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00:01:04 ◼   ► december 2015 [TS]

00:01:08 ◼   ► what about everybody to be uncomfortable [TS]

00:01:09 ◼   ► i'm your host nation spell we are [TS]

00:01:11 ◼   ► continuing our celebration of holiday [TS]

00:01:14 ◼   ► things in early December before Star [TS]

00:01:16 ◼   ► Wars happens ruins everything [TS]

00:01:20 ◼   ► and in this episode we're going to be [TS]

00:01:21 ◼   ► talking about two old movies this is [TS]

00:01:23 ◼   ► basically in addition of old movie club [TS]

00:01:26 ◼   ► with a holiday spin o war movie can open [TS]

00:01:32 ◼   ► it sold with listen to vast very festive [TS]

00:01:34 ◼   ► that's the that's the christmas-themed [TS]

00:01:37 ◼   ► to old movie club that's nice that must [TS]

00:01:40 ◼   ► have cost us billions of dollars to it [TS]

00:01:42 ◼   ► did together taking out all the stops [TS]

00:01:44 ◼   ► for Christmas we're also going to be [TS]

00:01:45 ◼   ► talking about 1968 the line and winter [TS]

00:01:47 ◼   ► film not usually considered a Christmas [TS]

00:01:50 ◼   ► film but is set says you is set at [TS]

00:01:53 ◼   ► Christmastime so i would like to go [TS]

00:01:55 ◼   ► chronologically but I should check in [TS]

00:01:56 ◼   ► with our old movie sommelier himself mr. [TS]

00:01:59 ◼   ► Philip Michaels hello [TS]

00:02:01 ◼   ► dealer's choice man alright well that's [TS]

00:02:04 ◼   ► what that's what I have to go [TS]

00:02:05 ◼   ► it's thank you for selecting these films [TS]

00:02:07 ◼   ► but let me introduce the people who [TS]

00:02:10 ◼   ► watch them with us [TS]

00:02:11 ◼   ► well not like with us now are you [TS]

00:02:12 ◼   ► getting all gather on a couch together [TS]

00:02:14 ◼   ► no one imagined that we can all shouted [TS]

00:02:17 ◼   ► at peter o'toole simultaneously but [TS]

00:02:18 ◼   ► instead we did in our own homes i would [TS]

00:02:20 ◼   ► have shattered you will be quiet [TS]

00:02:22 ◼   ► shouting Peter O'Toole its glory Lisa [TS]

00:02:24 ◼   ► Schmeisser is here with us you just her [TS]

00:02:26 ◼   ► hello hi [TS]

00:02:28 ◼   ► I will defend a line in winter excellent [TS]

00:02:30 ◼   ► well nobody's I don't think it's on [TS]

00:02:31 ◼   ► trial not like Santa Claus or anything [TS]

00:02:33 ◼   ► dan morgan is also here LOL amity cry [TS]

00:02:36 ◼   ► kitties [TS]

00:02:37 ◼   ► I'm not in the habit of substituting for [TS]

00:02:38 ◼   ► serious panelist Jason thank you [TS]

00:02:41 ◼   ► that's a great line David Laura hello [TS]

00:02:43 ◼   ► hello [TS]

00:02:45 ◼   ► my only question tonight is what shall [TS]

00:02:47 ◼   ► we hang the Holly or each other and of [TS]

00:02:51 ◼   ► course mr. Steve let's Jason how from [TS]

00:02:54 ◼   ► where we started did we ever reach this [TS]

00:02:56 ◼   ► Christmas I'd like to know it's a it's [TS]

00:02:59 ◼   ► it's a good question the district [TS]

00:03:00 ◼   ► attorney's a Republican it's not more [TS]

00:03:03 ◼   ► lion in winter references in the opener [TS]

00:03:05 ◼   ► than I didn't disappear [TS]

00:03:07 ◼   ► yeah I refuse to acknowledge them quite [TS]

00:03:09 ◼   ► frankly I i was gonna go with its cold a [TS]

00:03:11 ◼   ► man's gotta do something to keep your [TS]

00:03:14 ◼   ► favorite guy in the movie that's there [TS]

00:03:16 ◼   ► you go [TS]

00:03:17 ◼   ► it was the movie told from his [TS]

00:03:18 ◼   ► perspective your Philip Michaels is [TS]

00:03:20 ◼   ► intoxicated madam [TS]

00:03:23 ◼   ► shameful to be fair we knew that it's [TS]

00:03:29 ◼   ► harder to make the the references that [TS]

00:03:31 ◼   ► involved a spinning newspaper headline [TS]

00:03:32 ◼   ► there are so many of those Miracle on [TS]

00:03:34 ◼   ► thirty-fourth Street ok Phil Miracle on [TS]

00:03:35 ◼   ► thirty-fourth Street this was the more [TS]

00:03:37 ◼   ► traditional holiday selection that you [TS]

00:03:39 ◼   ► made [TS]

00:03:40 ◼   ► yeah yeah it just as a sort of a [TS]

00:03:42 ◼   ► preamble to the selections here I do not [TS]

00:03:45 ◼   ► like Christmas movies I don't like I [TS]

00:03:48 ◼   ► don't like is that is [TS]

00:03:50 ◼   ► yeah I don't like you're Santa Claus I [TS]

00:03:52 ◼   ► don't like your uh your uh did whatever [TS]

00:03:56 ◼   ► the Christmas move your Christmas shoes [TS]

00:03:58 ◼   ► now oh yeah except increase the world [TS]

00:04:02 ◼   ► that is a brilliant movie our pots [TS]

00:04:05 ◼   ► Miracle on thirty-fourth Street I kind [TS]

00:04:08 ◼   ► of like because it has a certain [TS]

00:04:09 ◼   ► earnestness and and charm to it and some [TS]

00:04:13 ◼   ► good supporting character work and eat [TS]

00:04:16 ◼   ► you could do worse [TS]

00:04:17 ◼   ► basically you are lucky that I took an [TS]

00:04:19 ◼   ► oath as a host to not stab the guests [TS]

00:04:24 ◼   ► for saying I kind of like Miracle on [TS]

00:04:26 ◼   ► thirty-fourth Street when you made me [TS]

00:04:28 ◼   ► watch the line and winter good guy so [TS]

00:04:32 ◼   ► you got your Miracle on thirty-fourth [TS]

00:04:34 ◼   ► Street it is it is thanksgiving morning [TS]

00:04:37 ◼   ► you are having the macy's thanksgiving [TS]

00:04:38 ◼   ► day parade marine O'Hara recently [TS]

00:04:41 ◼   ► deceased rmk marine O'Hara she is the [TS]

00:04:44 ◼   ► lady who puts on the macy's thanksgiving [TS]

00:04:46 ◼   ► day parade on and she has got a problem [TS]

00:04:49 ◼   ► because her Santa is dead drunk its cold [TS]

00:04:53 ◼   ► a man's gotta keep water somehow he is [TS]

00:04:55 ◼   ► he is uh not even able to stand up [TS]

00:04:58 ◼   ► straight on the float [TS]

00:04:59 ◼   ► nope doesn't seem like he has to he just [TS]

00:05:01 ◼   ► has to sit in the slave kids but anyhow [TS]

00:05:03 ◼   ► let's recasting me from his time with [TS]

00:05:06 ◼   ► the whip is the problem not sure he's [TS]

00:05:07 ◼   ► capable of sitting I think he sort of [TS]

00:05:10 ◼   ► like just flat on his back because [TS]

00:05:12 ◼   ► either they will affect the room where [TS]

00:05:14 ◼   ► did they find this and in my experience [TS]

00:05:16 ◼   ► you just sort of wedge Santa Claus into [TS]

00:05:18 ◼   ► the chimney and that keeps him upright [TS]

00:05:20 ◼   ► throughout the Korean to the scene walks [TS]

00:05:22 ◼   ► on Edmund win who you might see it as a [TS]

00:05:24 ◼   ► right jolly old elf because he has a [TS]

00:05:27 ◼   ► beard like Santa and is pleasingly plump [TS]

00:05:30 ◼   ► for 1947 III [TS]

00:05:32 ◼   ► i will now feature i buy today he is he [TS]

00:05:35 ◼   ► is the US citizen have to cut like a [TS]

00:05:37 ◼   ► stake center [TS]

00:05:38 ◼   ► yeah uh huh buddy back 1927 he doesn't [TS]

00:05:41 ◼   ► need any padding [TS]

00:05:42 ◼   ► no she doesn't depression you know and [TS]

00:05:45 ◼   ► he berates drunken Santa for being drunk [TS]

00:05:48 ◼   ► in Santa and marine O'Hara uh the [TS]

00:05:52 ◼   ► presses him into action as the as the [TS]

00:05:56 ◼   ► replacement Santa on the float and it [TS]

00:05:58 ◼   ► turns out he's a big hit and everyone [TS]

00:06:00 ◼   ► loves them didn't know that like just [TS]

00:06:02 ◼   ► driving by on a float people would have [TS]

00:06:05 ◼   ► that relationship with me going to find [TS]

00:06:07 ◼   ► the boys of all kinds of macy's no yes [TS]

00:06:09 ◼   ► but it but in this movie and then Santa [TS]

00:06:11 ◼   ► addresses the crowd will keep in mind [TS]

00:06:13 ◼   ► that most of these people are probably [TS]

00:06:14 ◼   ► traumatized by the fact that they just [TS]

00:06:16 ◼   ► saw them strip drunk Santa down to his [TS]

00:06:18 ◼   ► skivvies while he was still on the float [TS]

00:06:19 ◼   ► those with only the people around the [TS]

00:06:21 ◼   ► the starting point of the float is [TS]

00:06:23 ◼   ► something it was a bunch of clowns that [TS]

00:06:25 ◼   ► did it to make city which explains a lot [TS]

00:06:27 ◼   ► about white people are scared of clowns [TS]

00:06:28 ◼   ► and this was apparently the 1946 Macy's [TS]

00:06:31 ◼   ► parade they actually filmed i rather [TS]

00:06:33 ◼   ► than and Edmund win arm who plays the [TS]

00:06:37 ◼   ► part with did actually delivered Santa [TS]

00:06:39 ◼   ► Sermon on the Mount of the end coming [TS]

00:06:42 ◼   ► the bases and and my toy makers the [TS]

00:06:45 ◼   ► Bible finally makes sense thank you it [TS]

00:06:47 ◼   ► is easier for a rich man to pass through [TS]

00:06:50 ◼   ► the eye of a needle than it is for you [TS]

00:06:52 ◼   ► to fly no values at macys so young so so [TS]

00:06:56 ◼   ► popular proves this this Santa to be [TS]

00:06:59 ◼   ► he's hired with very little interviewing [TS]

00:07:03 ◼   ► process to work at me seized during the [TS]

00:07:05 ◼   ► holiday season we are we then find out [TS]

00:07:08 ◼   ► two things one arm Santa actually thinks [TS]

00:07:11 ◼   ► that he is Santa he goes by the name [TS]

00:07:14 ◼   ► Kris Kringle when he fills out his [TS]

00:07:15 ◼   ► employment card he said that he lives in [TS]

00:07:17 ◼   ► the North Pole and his next of kin are [TS]

00:07:20 ◼   ► the reindeer witches really is mean to [TS]

00:07:23 ◼   ► mrs. Claus I think that cut out of the [TS]

00:07:25 ◼   ► will is a maybe this is before they [TS]

00:07:28 ◼   ► married macy's HR practices should come [TS]

00:07:31 ◼   ► under some intense scrutiny here has a [TS]

00:07:33 ◼   ► reason he's not living at the north pole [TS]

00:07:35 ◼   ► anymore obviously she's got she got the [TS]

00:07:37 ◼   ► igloo and all the elves was falsified [TS]

00:07:39 ◼   ► when they needed to the to fill out the [TS]

00:07:41 ◼   ► card some clerk just put it as a joke [TS]

00:07:44 ◼   ► is there were there were no checks they [TS]

00:07:47 ◼   ► just found the guy on the street and [TS]

00:07:48 ◼   ► gave him the job the old guy was a drunk [TS]

00:07:50 ◼   ► how much worse could it be [TS]

00:07:51 ◼   ► yeah exactly before the onions submarine [TS]

00:07:54 ◼   ► O'Hara and her assistant who is one of [TS]

00:07:57 ◼   ► those 1940s 1950s guys with a [TS]

00:07:59 ◼   ► pencil-thin mustaches demeanor that I [TS]

00:08:02 ◼   ► that I want it's not that Shellhammer [TS]

00:08:04 ◼   ► yeah I got a great name to do and show [TS]

00:08:06 ◼   ► hamburg he's is here he's the head of [TS]

00:08:09 ◼   ► the children's department at macys right [TS]

00:08:11 ◼   ► and she's a choice and Toyota part of [TS]

00:08:12 ◼   ► the toy department and she's like the [TS]

00:08:14 ◼   ► marketing person base exactly and [TS]

00:08:17 ◼   ► they're all 0 ol mr. Mason's gonna have [TS]

00:08:19 ◼   ► our high that we hired this crazy man [TS]

00:08:21 ◼   ► and adding to that fact is Santa is [TS]

00:08:24 ◼   ► telling people when they come to him [TS]

00:08:26 ◼   ► instead of pushing the toys that Macy's [TS]

00:08:28 ◼   ► wants him to push he will say up now [TS]

00:08:30 ◼   ► there's a shop on Lexington that has [TS]

00:08:31 ◼   ► that for a much better price where go to [TS]

00:08:34 ◼   ► Gimbels and that's going to go over well [TS]

00:08:37 ◼   ► except that it does go over well because [TS]

00:08:39 ◼   ► the people who come to Santa are so [TS]

00:08:42 ◼   ► impressed with his forthrightness that [TS]

00:08:44 ◼   ► they bow to welcome back to macys again [TS]

00:08:47 ◼   ► and again brand loyalty [TS]

00:08:49 ◼   ► yeah yeah the customer service so mr. [TS]

00:08:53 ◼   ► Macy rather than being angry at marine [TS]

00:08:55 ◼   ► O'Hara and Julian Shellhammer higher is [TS]

00:08:58 ◼   ► a is quite happy that this whole santa [TS]

00:09:02 ◼   ► thing is is going on and he he [TS]

00:09:05 ◼   ► the end and soon symbols is following [TS]

00:09:07 ◼   ► suit by telling people to to go to [TS]

00:09:09 ◼   ► macy's and other stores and suddenly the [TS]

00:09:12 ◼   ► stores are locked in a nationwide battle [TS]

00:09:14 ◼   ► of of niceness and not tricking the [TS]

00:09:17 ◼   ► customer is the the implication that [TS]

00:09:19 ◼   ► goes on here and there's even a summit [TS]

00:09:21 ◼   ► between mr. Macy and mr. gimble in which [TS]

00:09:24 ◼   ► in which Kris Kringle is I guess the [TS]

00:09:27 ◼   ► mediator and there there's lots of [TS]

00:09:29 ◼   ► handshaking so we we should mention a [TS]

00:09:33 ◼   ► little bit about Maureen O'Hara's uh [TS]

00:09:34 ◼   ► personal life [TS]

00:09:36 ◼   ► she's a divorce a with a kid scandalous [TS]

00:09:39 ◼   ► and the kid is in fact the movie was i [TS]

00:09:43 ◼   ► forget which decency organization like [TS]

00:09:46 ◼   ► railed against akali the Catholic [TS]

00:09:48 ◼   ► decency organization i believe ya can't [TS]

00:09:50 ◼   ► like that decent 15 [TS]

00:09:51 ◼   ► that right yeah graphics because because [TS]

00:09:54 ◼   ► a defensive war game for say oh no no [TS]

00:09:57 ◼   ► divorce say who is thriving and his [TS]

00:09:58 ◼   ► child isn't busy burning things down out [TS]

00:10:00 ◼   ► of anger but they couldn't make her a [TS]

00:10:02 ◼   ► widow because the whole point is that [TS]

00:10:04 ◼   ► she sort of closed off on happy nice [TS]

00:10:08 ◼   ► things and is very serious and [TS]

00:10:10 ◼   ► businesslike now and it's presumably [TS]

00:10:12 ◼   ► because of her near dwell husband [TS]

00:10:14 ◼   ► doesn't believe in fantasy or work or or [TS]

00:10:18 ◼   ► fiction or or telling their child about [TS]

00:10:21 ◼   ► Santa Claus she's passed that John's [TS]

00:10:22 ◼   ► going around the block the kid we should [TS]

00:10:25 ◼   ► mention is played by natalie wood and I [TS]

00:10:27 ◼   ► what I believe is her first role from [TS]

00:10:28 ◼   ► and she actually Lisa and I were talking [TS]

00:10:33 ◼   ► about this as we watch the movie [TS]

00:10:35 ◼   ► together mom normally both of us spies [TS]

00:10:39 ◼   ► child actors and then Natalie Wood is [TS]

00:10:42 ◼   ► actually quite good in this particularly [TS]

00:10:44 ◼   ► when she gives Kris Kringle they all [TS]

00:10:46 ◼   ► stink eye [TS]

00:10:47 ◼   ► yep oh yes he's got the best face in the [TS]

00:10:49 ◼   ► business of a child is delightful she [TS]

00:10:51 ◼   ► pulls on the beard that's pretty good i [TS]

00:10:54 ◼   ► like the moment where I after she does [TS]

00:10:56 ◼   ► the cute kid thing of like oh mama [TS]

00:10:58 ◼   ► please he doesn't have anyplace to have [TS]

00:11:00 ◼   ► Thanksgiving dinner and she's like all [TS]

00:11:02 ◼   ► right and then there's a nice line where [TS]

00:11:03 ◼   ► she says last great you know I didn't [TS]

00:11:06 ◼   ► ask the right that I do that right the [TS]

00:11:07 ◼   ► man you are referring to is john Payne [TS]

00:11:10 ◼   ► mr. Gailey building right nearly as the [TS]

00:11:13 ◼   ► character's name john Payne is the actor [TS]

00:11:15 ◼   ► he stars in one of my favorite [TS]

00:11:17 ◼   ► underrated film Noirs kansas city [TS]

00:11:19 ◼   ► confidential by the way that's a that's [TS]

00:11:21 ◼   ► that's when you should watch maybe [TS]

00:11:23 ◼   ► instead of white in the winter if you [TS]

00:11:24 ◼   ► chase alright thanks Thom haha he really [TS]

00:11:30 ◼   ► wants to get to know Maureen O'Hara and [TS]

00:11:32 ◼   ► why wouldn't you marine O'Hara is [TS]

00:11:33 ◼   ► stunning but so he uses her child to do [TS]

00:11:37 ◼   ► so it uses your child to church trick [TS]

00:11:40 ◼   ► his way into her heart and he fully [TS]

00:11:43 ◼   ► believes in in fantasy and happiness and [TS]

00:11:47 ◼   ► telling yarns and and even volunteers to [TS]

00:11:51 ◼   ► put up Kris Kringle when it's determine [TS]

00:11:54 ◼   ► the kriss kringle needs a place to live [TS]

00:11:56 ◼   ► since the old folks home that he was [TS]

00:11:58 ◼   ► living in is quite far away in Long [TS]

00:12:00 ◼   ► Island it's very far away although [TS]

00:12:02 ◼   ► admittedly he primarily let's Kris [TS]

00:12:03 ◼   ► Kringle into it [TS]

00:12:04 ◼   ► house as another another means to get [TS]

00:12:06 ◼   ► into marino hairspray yeah sure I well [TS]

00:12:09 ◼   ► most importantly there i love the line [TS]

00:12:11 ◼   ► I'll take care of Suzy if you'll take [TS]

00:12:13 ◼   ► care of her mother which is the Fermi [TS]

00:12:15 ◼   ► the jumping-off point of the strangers [TS]

00:12:16 ◼   ► on a train version of this movie haha [TS]

00:12:18 ◼   ► thanks i just waiting for him to say [TS]

00:12:20 ◼   ► crisscross the skies cost ya know John [TS]

00:12:22 ◼   ► pains game is strong in this movement [TS]

00:12:25 ◼   ► job game is not a man to be the church [TS]

00:12:28 ◼   ► fellas if you want to know how to warm [TS]

00:12:31 ◼   ► your way into a divorce is heart and I [TS]

00:12:34 ◼   ► wanted to share your bedroom yes haven't [TS]

00:12:36 ◼   ► shared your bedroom and talk to children [TS]

00:12:38 ◼   ► but one we haven't even gotten into his [TS]

00:12:40 ◼   ► successes as a as a lawyer because there [TS]

00:12:43 ◼   ► is a moment later in this film where he [TS]

00:12:44 ◼   ► he has a great moment of like front page [TS]

00:12:47 ◼   ► not bad right so he's got he's got it [TS]

00:12:49 ◼   ► all working basically he is the master [TS]

00:12:51 ◼   ► of the universe mr. Bayliss exactly are [TS]

00:12:54 ◼   ► we should also point out that all is not [TS]

00:12:57 ◼   ► well at macys there is at least one [TS]

00:12:58 ◼   ► macys employee who is not happy that [TS]

00:13:01 ◼   ► Kris Kringle is now working there and [TS]

00:13:03 ◼   ► that would be mean old Granville Sawyer [TS]

00:13:06 ◼   ► the the store psychiatrist psychologist [TS]

00:13:09 ◼   ► dr. Sawyer right he he keeps you busy [TS]

00:13:12 ◼   ► riding the actual doctors even though [TS]

00:13:16 ◼   ► he's a total fraud and charlatan and he [TS]

00:13:18 ◼   ► is he's not just your much to mustache [TS]

00:13:20 ◼   ► twirling villain he is your eyebrows [TS]

00:13:22 ◼   ► twirling a villain he freelances as a [TS]

00:13:25 ◼   ► psychiatrist in his off period [TS]

00:13:28 ◼   ► yes please Alfred amateur psychologist [TS]

00:13:31 ◼   ► and that is what brings the controversy [TS]

00:13:34 ◼   ► between granville Sawyer and Kris [TS]

00:13:35 ◼   ► Kringle to a head [TS]

00:13:37 ◼   ► granville sawyer didn't want him working [TS]

00:13:39 ◼   ► there cause he's crazy he can't work [TS]

00:13:41 ◼   ► here when in fact Chris creek bring Kris [TS]

00:13:43 ◼   ► Kringle did was I immediately identify [TS]

00:13:45 ◼   ► all of mr. Sawyer's neuro seas and [TS]

00:13:47 ◼   ► suggest that he was unhappy at home [TS]

00:13:49 ◼   ► which very clearly is cause then he shot [TS]

00:13:51 ◼   ► his wife after he leaves and so as a [TS]

00:13:54 ◼   ► matter of revenge basically he declares [TS]

00:13:56 ◼   ► Kris Kringle to be incompetent right and [TS]

00:14:00 ◼   ► we mentioned the armchair psychiatry [TS]

00:14:03 ◼   ► psychology there's a there's the [TS]

00:14:05 ◼   ► weirdest-looking kid in the world who [TS]

00:14:07 ◼   ► sweeps up at macys what what the hell is [TS]

00:14:11 ◼   ► now Albert all that I'll for that that [TS]

00:14:14 ◼   ► allegedly seventeen-year-old blog who [TS]

00:14:16 ◼   ► enjoy special lady [TS]

00:14:17 ◼   ► Santa Claus so you can make children [TS]

00:14:18 ◼   ► happy yeah that there's a lot of alarm [TS]

00:14:21 ◼   ► bells going off there with that [TS]

00:14:22 ◼   ► well that's you sound like mr. Sawyer [TS]

00:14:24 ◼   ► who tells him very much the same that [TS]

00:14:26 ◼   ► it's a little judgmental there also and [TS]

00:14:28 ◼   ► then poor guy is derided for being [TS]

00:14:29 ◼   ► overweight the whole time when again by [TS]

00:14:31 ◼   ► maybe by 1947 Sanders he doesn't need [TS]

00:14:34 ◼   ► any packages brusky he's a skeez but [TS]

00:14:36 ◼   ► he's I'd say he's reasonably I am NOT [TS]

00:14:38 ◼   ► body shaming him in the slightest I'm [TS]

00:14:40 ◼   ► behavior shaming him because now he's a [TS]

00:14:42 ◼   ► weirdo [TS]

00:14:43 ◼   ► yeah I'm here with me and he and he [TS]

00:14:45 ◼   ► asked the delivery room [TS]

00:14:46 ◼   ► gosh mr. Kringle I should do love given [TS]

00:14:49 ◼   ► making children happy it's always what [TS]

00:14:51 ◼   ► sure to get all the packages i give them [TS]

00:14:54 ◼   ► yeah there's a lot of bad isms floating [TS]

00:14:57 ◼   ► around that way one of the wonderful [TS]

00:14:58 ◼   ► choices sometimes you lose them [TS]

00:15:01 ◼   ► yeah well done Alfred you really made us [TS]

00:15:03 ◼   ► think yeah yeah Kris kringles garbage in [TS]

00:15:06 ◼   ► his pocket aces where should I put this [TS]

00:15:07 ◼   ► you just put it on the floor was on the [TS]

00:15:09 ◼   ► floor I get tired of sweeping up dust [TS]

00:15:12 ◼   ► there it is [TS]

00:15:13 ◼   ► yeah i've only seen this movie 37 times [TS]

00:15:15 ◼   ► he's encouraging people to throw things [TS]

00:15:17 ◼   ► on the floor just to keep him [TS]

00:15:18 ◼   ► entertained as he sweeps so granville [TS]

00:15:21 ◼   ► Sawyer has been doing some freelance [TS]

00:15:24 ◼   ► psychiatry on on poor dumb stupid [TS]

00:15:27 ◼   ► gullible Alfred yep and has planted all [TS]

00:15:29 ◼   ► sorts of ideas about what I made my [TS]

00:15:32 ◼   ► father apparently yes what a Reiki is [TS]

00:15:35 ◼   ► and this this sends a Kris Kringle into [TS]

00:15:38 ◼   ► a blind fury and he goes to confront [TS]

00:15:42 ◼   ► granville Sawyer and in the ensuing [TS]

00:15:43 ◼   ► argument box granville Sawyer on the [TS]

00:15:46 ◼   ► head with this sunbrella we're using a [TS]

00:15:48 ◼   ► comical welt that's a mistake it was a [TS]

00:15:50 ◼   ► it was my weakness [TS]

00:15:51 ◼   ► yes which is at the point that everyone [TS]

00:15:54 ◼   ► decides well turns out he is kind of [TS]

00:15:56 ◼   ► cookie let's send him to Bellevue and [TS]

00:15:58 ◼   ► Kris Kringle who up until that point has [TS]

00:16:02 ◼   ► shown a very good Felicity for uh [TS]

00:16:04 ◼   ► passing mental competency test by [TS]

00:16:08 ◼   ► knowing who the president was and [TS]

00:16:10 ◼   ► underdone Adams know each other before [TS]

00:16:13 ◼   ► it was under john quincy adams that that [TS]

00:16:16 ◼   ► mr saye doesn't know that though [TS]

00:16:18 ◼   ► apparently he's wrong [TS]

00:16:19 ◼   ► yeah you know sure but whatever ya [TS]

00:16:23 ◼   ► believe it was the city like [TS]

00:16:24 ◼   ► opinion-makers didn't have Wikipedia [TS]

00:16:26 ◼   ► that's right in 1947 but this time [TS]

00:16:29 ◼   ► around he sowed [TS]

00:16:30 ◼   ► rest by the whole thing and the fact [TS]

00:16:32 ◼   ► that he blames marino hair off for [TS]

00:16:34 ◼   ► setting him up that he fails the test at [TS]

00:16:38 ◼   ► Bellevue and it looks like he's gonna be [TS]

00:16:39 ◼   ► stuck in the state mental hospital for [TS]

00:16:41 ◼   ► quite a long [TS]

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00:19:21 ◼   ► did but Fred Fred gaily john Payne comes [TS]

00:19:25 ◼   ► to visit him and stir and and gives him [TS]

00:19:29 ◼   ► a talking-to and convinces him hey [TS]

00:19:30 ◼   ► marine O'Hara was starting to believe in [TS]

00:19:33 ◼   ► you and you are getting 3 to both her [TS]

00:19:35 ◼   ► and the daughter and that gives edmund [TS]

00:19:37 ◼   ► gwenn hope and they decided to fight [TS]

00:19:39 ◼   ► this this fact that he's going to be [TS]

00:19:42 ◼   ► declared crazy and kept up in the the [TS]

00:19:44 ◼   ► mental institution for the the rest of [TS]

00:19:46 ◼   ► his life and so they challenge it at a [TS]

00:19:49 ◼   ► hearing presided over by the great Dean [TS]

00:19:53 ◼   ► lockhardt as the judge [TS]

00:19:55 ◼   ► oh yeah cart if you ever see his gal [TS]

00:19:58 ◼   ► Friday he he is the incompetent sheriff [TS]

00:20:00 ◼   ► and he made a career out of plane [TS]

00:20:02 ◼   ► basically bumbling bug-eyed officials [TS]

00:20:05 ◼   ► who are in over their head and he is in [TS]

00:20:07 ◼   ► over his head here he and and William [TS]

00:20:10 ◼   ► Frawley are the greatest one-two punch [TS]

00:20:12 ◼   ► that this film has to offer William [TS]

00:20:13 ◼   ► Frawley who you may recognize as good [TS]

00:20:16 ◼   ► old Fred Mertz is the political fixer [TS]

00:20:17 ◼   ► advising judge team Lockhart in this [TS]

00:20:21 ◼   ► case and I really think this that the [TS]

00:20:24 ◼   ► courtroom is going to be like I mean [TS]

00:20:26 ◼   ► having having watched anatomy of a [TS]

00:20:28 ◼   ► murder I always think the courtroom here [TS]

00:20:29 ◼   ► is going to be longer the last maybe [TS]

00:20:31 ◼   ► half hour of the movie a little bit less [TS]

00:20:33 ◼   ► it it and yet there there's nobody [TS]

00:20:35 ◼   ► better in this entire movie then William [TS]

00:20:37 ◼   ► Frawley and he's in like five scenes oh [TS]

00:20:40 ◼   ► yeah he's great and most of his most of [TS]

00:20:42 ◼   ► his moments on screen or just came [TS]

00:20:43 ◼   ► naughty nice shot his first appearance [TS]

00:20:46 ◼   ► he just puts the cigar in his mouth and [TS]

00:20:48 ◼   ► I laugh out loud [TS]

00:20:50 ◼   ► every time ok you got you can't you [TS]

00:20:52 ◼   ► can't discount his great scene where he [TS]

00:20:54 ◼   ► advises the judge about the all the [TS]

00:20:56 ◼   ► people who are going to really love him [TS]

00:20:58 ◼   ► after he declares that this guy that [TS]

00:21:00 ◼   ► Santa Claus doesn't exist then you got [TS]

00:21:02 ◼   ► the afl-cio on you and they're gonna [TS]

00:21:04 ◼   ► love you [TS]

00:21:06 ◼   ► yeah they didn't know his blue probably [TS]

00:21:08 ◼   ► a spectacular and of course the best [TS]

00:21:10 ◼   ► line is where he explains that the only [TS]

00:21:12 ◼   ► the only two votes the judge is going to [TS]

00:21:13 ◼   ► get a few rules that Santa is is insane [TS]

00:21:16 ◼   ► are his own and the district attorney at [TS]

00:21:20 ◼   ► the route to which that the judge says [TS]

00:21:22 ◼   ► the district attorneys and Republican [TS]

00:21:24 ◼   ► said that very satellite so good and [TS]

00:21:27 ◼   ► cured meat Lockhart fashion although he [TS]

00:21:29 ◼   ► does get his one smug line of overruled [TS]

00:21:33 ◼   ► but most most of what William Frawley [TS]

00:21:36 ◼   ► does is sit in the courtroom and nod and [TS]

00:21:38 ◼   ► glare at the judge and it's so great it [TS]

00:21:41 ◼   ► is so great it smells like the odd [TS]

00:21:43 ◼   ► little scene where he walks into the [TS]

00:21:44 ◼   ► courtroom in the bailiff sort of [TS]

00:21:46 ◼   ► gestures to him telling me you can't [TS]

00:21:47 ◼   ► smoke in the courtroom because I got the [TS]

00:21:49 ◼   ► other way when we just he taps the end [TS]

00:21:52 ◼   ► of it to show that it isn't little can [TS]

00:21:53 ◼   ► stick it back in his mouth he's he [TS]

00:21:55 ◼   ► doesn't really need to smoke the cigar [TS]

00:21:56 ◼   ► just as my father used to a badass he's [TS]

00:21:58 ◼   ► like I'll just stick the lid in my mouth [TS]

00:22:00 ◼   ► i'm done some interesting [TS]

00:22:03 ◼   ► interpretability if all you know of [TS]

00:22:06 ◼   ► William Frawley is Fred Mertz or or [TS]

00:22:09 ◼   ► uncle bob from my three sons right or [TS]

00:22:13 ◼   ► even he plays the priest in the Babe [TS]

00:22:15 ◼   ► Ruth story with William Bendix now this [TS]

00:22:17 ◼   ► is this is William Frawley script [TS]

00:22:19 ◼   ► Fraley's greatest role he's outstanding [TS]

00:22:21 ◼   ► down US Armed then we should also point [TS]

00:22:25 ◼   ► out the district attorney is played by [TS]

00:22:26 ◼   ► miles are women from the multi taskin it [TS]

00:22:29 ◼   ► slightly slightly less of a cat in this [TS]

00:22:31 ◼   ► movie you have it still kind of a cab [TS]

00:22:34 ◼   ► 104 screentime no yeah [TS]

00:22:36 ◼   ► yes doesn't get shot it also spoiler [TS]

00:22:39 ◼   ► alert mom and the trial proceeds and you [TS]

00:22:44 ◼   ► know we find out that in addition to [TS]

00:22:46 ◼   ► being really good at willing widows john [TS]

00:22:49 ◼   ► Payne is a pretty hard widows divorces [TS]

00:22:51 ◼   ► john Payne is also on a very good [TS]

00:22:54 ◼   ► attorney because he's got he's got the [TS]

00:22:56 ◼   ► courtroom spinning and he's discredited [TS]

00:22:58 ◼   ► granville Sawyer not that takes much he [TS]

00:23:01 ◼   ► gets mr. Macy to provide [TS]

00:23:03 ◼   ► some stand that he believes Kris Kringle [TS]

00:23:06 ◼   ► is actually Santa Claus and i love that [TS]

00:23:08 ◼   ► scene to spinning newspapers a whole [TS]

00:23:11 ◼   ► maybe the beauty of of so much of this [TS]

00:23:13 ◼   ► film is in these moments of it's very [TS]

00:23:17 ◼   ► easy to see two movies that are just [TS]

00:23:18 ◼   ► completely just kind of head in the [TS]

00:23:20 ◼   ► clouds and their movies that are very [TS]

00:23:22 ◼   ► cynical and this movie really walks a [TS]

00:23:24 ◼   ► line where it's got a lot of both and [TS]

00:23:26 ◼   ► and i love how it how it mixes them all [TS]

00:23:28 ◼   ► together and so here you know [TS]

00:23:30 ◼   ► yes this is a shiny happy movie about [TS]

00:23:32 ◼   ► Santa Claus and all that but when mr. [TS]

00:23:34 ◼   ► Macy is on the stand [TS]

00:23:36 ◼   ► I mean he's he's basically lying under [TS]

00:23:39 ◼   ► oath was imagining headlines that Miss [TS]

00:23:41 ◼   ► Maisie declares Santa colossal froggy [TS]

00:23:44 ◼   ► cannot renounce his own Santa Claus in [TS]

00:23:47 ◼   ► the applicants so he goes along with it [TS]

00:23:49 ◼   ► and and and yes but his putting [TS]

00:23:50 ◼   ► headlines appear before him it's just [TS]

00:23:52 ◼   ► great he also sees the smiling [TS]

00:23:54 ◼   ► children's faces true i think in that [TS]

00:23:56 ◼   ► few seconds you realize maybe he really [TS]

00:23:58 ◼   ► does Billy though I really watching this [TS]

00:24:00 ◼   ► movie with my girlfriend who is a [TS]

00:24:01 ◼   ► business who went to business school [TS]

00:24:02 ◼   ► point out that everybody acts in self [TS]

00:24:04 ◼   ► interest in capitalism basically [TS]

00:24:06 ◼   ► throughout the entire movie [TS]

00:24:08 ◼   ► yeah yeah no this is a very Pro [TS]

00:24:10 ◼   ► capitalism movie yeah the entire movie [TS]

00:24:11 ◼   ► is a love letter to acquiring stuff just [TS]

00:24:14 ◼   ► like it's also love letter to white [TS]

00:24:16 ◼   ► flight [TS]

00:24:16 ◼   ► I'm it's just it's i-i've never feel [TS]

00:24:19 ◼   ► like more of a communist then after [TS]

00:24:21 ◼   ► watching it a lot of isms out there Lisa [TS]

00:24:24 ◼   ► well but I very worse just communist am [TS]

00:24:27 ◼   ► i right senator mccarthy yeah that it's [TS]

00:24:30 ◼   ► it was just you just let me keep working [TS]

00:24:32 ◼   ► in the movies [TS]

00:24:33 ◼   ► oh you know heaven forfend some child [TS]

00:24:35 ◼   ► not not get a toy you get she got a [TS]

00:24:37 ◼   ► house that was the thing i did portal [TS]

00:24:39 ◼   ► had to put up with me sputtering 45 [TS]

00:24:41 ◼   ► minutes because I was like you know in [TS]

00:24:43 ◼   ► 20 I was like in 30 years this child's [TS]

00:24:45 ◼   ► gonna regret having your mother out of [TS]

00:24:46 ◼   ► Manhattan real estate prices begin the [TS]

00:24:48 ◼   ► rebound but she's not and the reason is [TS]

00:24:50 ◼   ► that they live in a magical world where [TS]

00:24:52 ◼   ► Santa Claus isn't actually real [TS]

00:24:54 ◼   ► that's the answer here is yeah and so [TS]

00:24:56 ◼   ► that way the real did that in that [TS]

00:24:58 ◼   ► affects real estate markets too because [TS]

00:24:59 ◼   ► Santa can just move people around it [TS]

00:25:01 ◼   ► with is not magic exists anything can [TS]

00:25:03 ◼   ► happen [TS]

00:25:04 ◼   ► the VI is like you lease i struggle and [TS]

00:25:07 ◼   ► and Lauren struggles to i know it and [TS]

00:25:09 ◼   ► this is her favorite movie I actually [TS]

00:25:10 ◼   ► hadn't seen this movie until about ten [TS]

00:25:11 ◼   ► years ago and i love it i love it [TS]

00:25:14 ◼   ► unreservedly but it's [TS]

00:25:16 ◼   ► almost like i love it despite all these [TS]

00:25:19 ◼   ► things that should make me hate it and [TS]

00:25:21 ◼   ► and you you mentioned some of it there [TS]

00:25:24 ◼   ► is a very clear message here that what's [TS]

00:25:27 ◼   ► really important is believing in things [TS]

00:25:28 ◼   ► that aren't real and i know i don't [TS]

00:25:32 ◼   ► agree with that at all i completely [TS]

00:25:34 ◼   ► disagree that in fact yes i am one of [TS]

00:25:36 ◼   ► those people who refuse to tell their [TS]

00:25:37 ◼   ► children that Santa Claus was real well [TS]

00:25:40 ◼   ► because that he's not but I so I'm i [TS]

00:25:43 ◼   ► guess i'm on on lots marino era side yet [TS]

00:25:46 ◼   ► boiler gta4 whoa [TS]

00:25:48 ◼   ► we're gonna take this we're gonna take [TS]

00:25:50 ◼   ► this to court all of our elementary [TS]

00:25:53 ◼   ► school-aged incomparable listeners are [TS]

00:25:55 ◼   ► now sobbing uncontrollably [TS]

00:25:57 ◼   ► yeah right i'm gonna reveal whether [TS]

00:25:59 ◼   ► Santa Claus is real after the sound of [TS]

00:26:02 ◼   ► the spoiler orange I think using your [TS]

00:26:09 ◼   ► point though that this movie really does [TS]

00:26:11 ◼   ► a good job of yet has the well just [TS]

00:26:14 ◼   ► believe in fairytales and everything's [TS]

00:26:16 ◼   ► great but it also has the it look just [TS]

00:26:19 ◼   ► kill you too exact long and be nice or [TS]

00:26:22 ◼   ► and where does it kill you to recommend [TS]

00:26:24 ◼   ► something at Gimbels or in the end is [TS]

00:26:26 ◼   ► that actually better you're like [TS]

00:26:28 ◼   ► reconsidering your you know it is about [TS]

00:26:31 ◼   ► enlightened self-interest but it's also [TS]

00:26:32 ◼   ► like don't be cut don't be such a jerk [TS]

00:26:34 ◼   ► because there are ways to be nice and [TS]

00:26:37 ◼   ► empathetic and still have it be good for [TS]

00:26:40 ◼   ► you watching this movie this time around [TS]

00:26:42 ◼   ► it's very reminiscent of another movie [TS]

00:26:43 ◼   ► that came out like a few years later on [TS]

00:26:46 ◼   ► the original angels in the outfield [TS]

00:26:47 ◼   ► which again it to get you just should [TS]

00:26:51 ◼   ► hate this movie because if there's [TS]

00:26:52 ◼   ► angels helping baseball team won a [TS]

00:26:54 ◼   ► pennant and then it should just be the [TS]

00:26:56 ◼   ► small T there's an orphan and she sees [TS]

00:26:59 ◼   ► the angels and but it really kind of [TS]

00:27:02 ◼   ► straddles the line number between the [TS]

00:27:06 ◼   ► this sort of head in the clouds [TS]

00:27:08 ◼   ► it ate everything wonderful and kinda [TS]

00:27:11 ◼   ► real world not cynicism but a real uh [TS]

00:27:15 ◼   ► realism that and and and the end of it [TS]

00:27:18 ◼   ► is [TS]

00:27:19 ◼   ► hey just be a nice person and also that [TS]

00:27:23 ◼   ► ends with a rush [TS]

00:27:24 ◼   ► I'm trying okay so also do it when [TS]

00:27:28 ◼   ► you're done watching kansas city [TS]

00:27:29 ◼   ► confidential with john Payne we don't [TS]

00:27:31 ◼   ► watch angels in the outfield alright [TS]

00:27:32 ◼   ► Janet Leigh and done thanks for building [TS]

00:27:34 ◼   ► my your building my playlist oh this [TS]

00:27:36 ◼   ► movie's interesting just because it [TS]

00:27:38 ◼   ► shows you with it it's basically a [TS]

00:27:39 ◼   ► forecast the nineteen fifties when you [TS]

00:27:41 ◼   ► look at it though because some it lays [TS]

00:27:44 ◼   ► down a lot of the a lot of the narrative [TS]

00:27:47 ◼   ► for you know consumed by will gratify [TS]

00:27:50 ◼   ► you it will make you a better person you [TS]

00:27:52 ◼   ► will feel like your dreams are coming [TS]

00:27:53 ◼   ► true [TS]

00:27:54 ◼   ► you know and that that the put that the [TS]

00:27:57 ◼   ► post-war cultures is just beginning to [TS]

00:27:58 ◼   ► take off at this point and i feel like [TS]

00:28:00 ◼   ► this movie represents kind of a cultural [TS]

00:28:02 ◼   ► inflection point that took you right [TS]

00:28:03 ◼   ► into the nineteen-fifties and the [TS]

00:28:05 ◼   ► explicit the invention of explicit [TS]

00:28:07 ◼   ► marketing toward children and you know [TS]

00:28:10 ◼   ► again the movement to the suburbs which [TS]

00:28:12 ◼   ► was done for a wide variety of reasons [TS]

00:28:13 ◼   ► both economic and sociological 17 years [TS]

00:28:15 ◼   ► before before Charlie Brown Christmas [TS]

00:28:17 ◼   ► which also decried Christmas [TS]

00:28:21 ◼   ► commercialism and i laughed at that [TS]

00:28:22 ◼   ► because this movie does the exact same [TS]

00:28:23 ◼   ► thing and again charlie brown christmas [TS]

00:28:26 ◼   ► brought to you by coca-cola and here we [TS]

00:28:28 ◼   ► have you know it's the entire story of a [TS]

00:28:29 ◼   ► department store and yet they are [TS]

00:28:31 ◼   ► decrying Christmas commercialism I just [TS]

00:28:33 ◼   ► think it's funny that that was not a new [TS]

00:28:35 ◼   ► thing at and Kris kringles decrying [TS]

00:28:38 ◼   ► Christmas commercialism for the last 50 [TS]

00:28:40 ◼   ► years is this coming up when I was [TS]

00:28:42 ◼   ► watching this was like you know he talks [TS]

00:28:44 ◼   ► about the the meaning of Christmas going [TS]

00:28:46 ◼   ► away and I was sort of like digging [TS]

00:28:48 ◼   ► around a little bit because I was [TS]

00:28:49 ◼   ► curious just how long you know how long [TS]

00:28:51 ◼   ► is this this perception that we still [TS]

00:28:53 ◼   ► hold today right [TS]

00:28:54 ◼   ► the christmas has been diluted has [TS]

00:28:56 ◼   ► become about shopping and toys and all [TS]

00:28:58 ◼   ► of this stuff and not about you know [TS]

00:29:00 ◼   ► being kind your neighbors and reaching [TS]

00:29:02 ◼   ► out to people etc like how long has this [TS]

00:29:04 ◼   ► been going on and the answer is [TS]

00:29:05 ◼   ► according to official 18th century 21 in [TS]

00:29:08 ◼   ► sensory you know wasn't doing that [TS]

00:29:10 ◼   ► during the Depression you think I mean [TS]

00:29:12 ◼   ► all I could just site Santa Claus and [TS]

00:29:14 ◼   ► saying that he's sad about the last 50 [TS]

00:29:16 ◼   ► years this is a delusional man that we [TS]

00:29:17 ◼   ► don't know if he has the graph of [TS]

00:29:18 ◼   ► actions finally I i take away the exact [TS]

00:29:21 ◼   ► opposite from it but maybe that's just [TS]

00:29:23 ◼   ► me [TS]

00:29:23 ◼   ► let me take a break to tell you about [TS]

00:29:25 ◼   ► one of our sponsors it's the ministry of [TS]

00:29:28 ◼   ► supply you know dress shirts should be [TS]

00:29:31 ◼   ► better [TS]

00:29:32 ◼   ► they should work with your body and not [TS]

00:29:33 ◼   ► against it should keep you comfortable [TS]

00:29:35 ◼   ► all day long that is what drives me [TS]

00:29:38 ◼   ► history of supply it is a menswear [TS]

00:29:40 ◼   ► company that launched out of the [TS]

00:29:41 ◼   ► Massachusetts Institute of Technology [TS]

00:29:42 ◼   ► three years ago that's right they're [TS]

00:29:44 ◼   ► using science and technology to make [TS]

00:29:47 ◼   ► office appropriate professional where it [TS]

00:29:50 ◼   ► fits better [TS]

00:29:51 ◼   ► it has technical benefits it will manage [TS]

00:29:53 ◼   ► your body temperature to keep you from [TS]

00:29:55 ◼   ► overheating it will manage the moisture [TS]

00:29:57 ◼   ► in the shirt [TS]

00:29:59 ◼   ► it will keep you dry and it is resistant [TS]

00:30:01 ◼   ► to wrinkles so you can stay away from [TS]

00:30:03 ◼   ► ironing I hate ironing it's the worst [TS]

00:30:05 ◼   ► the most tech forward dresser they've [TS]

00:30:07 ◼   ► got is called the Apollo like the space [TS]

00:30:09 ◼   ► capsule and it's made with sweat-wicking [TS]

00:30:11 ◼   ► fibers infused with NASA engineered [TS]

00:30:14 ◼   ► phase-change material for temperature [TS]

00:30:16 ◼   ► regulation is a high-tech shirt it's [TS]

00:30:18 ◼   ► gotta lighten it construction so it's [TS]

00:30:19 ◼   ► breathable and four-way stretch for [TS]

00:30:21 ◼   ► mobility the people at ministry of [TS]

00:30:23 ◼   ► supply believe in continuous improvement [TS]

00:30:25 ◼   ► the refining and improving the products [TS]

00:30:26 ◼   ► through human-centric iterative design [TS]

00:30:28 ◼   ► process so every iteration gets better [TS]

00:30:31 ◼   ► that's right they are smart people at [TS]

00:30:34 ◼   ► MIT coming up with very smart methods of [TS]

00:30:37 ◼   ► making cloves so shop them online [TS]

00:30:39 ◼   ► ministry of supply dot-com and if you [TS]

00:30:42 ◼   ► use the code let's do a draft my [TS]

00:30:45 ◼   ► favorite code ever for fifteen percent [TS]

00:30:47 ◼   ► off your first purchase that's right if [TS]

00:30:49 ◼   ► you use the code let's do a draft you [TS]

00:30:50 ◼   ► will get fifteen percent off or if [TS]

00:30:54 ◼   ► you're in Boston San Francisco or New [TS]

00:30:55 ◼   ► York visit them in person at one of [TS]

00:30:57 ◼   ► their stores mention the incomparable [TS]

00:30:58 ◼   ► podcast and you'll get fifteen percent [TS]

00:31:00 ◼   ► off your first purchase ministry of [TS]

00:31:02 ◼   ► supply really cool science technology [TS]

00:31:04 ◼   ► shirts ministry of supply menswear made [TS]

00:31:07 ◼   ► smarter so there's the trial and [TS]

00:31:09 ◼   ► basically it comes down to [TS]

00:31:12 ◼   ► hey john Payne hotshot attorney and [TS]

00:31:16 ◼   ► Ladykiller you think that you can get [TS]

00:31:19 ◼   ► someone to categorically prove that this [TS]

00:31:22 ◼   ► crazy old man is Santa Claus and [TS]

00:31:25 ◼   ► champagnes all I don't know and so it's [TS]

00:31:29 ◼   ► not looking good for all Kris Kringle [TS]

00:31:30 ◼   ► that which is when we cut to the the [TS]

00:31:32 ◼   ► mailroom at the US Postal Service we're [TS]

00:31:35 ◼   ► basically of the workers of the world [TS]

00:31:39 ◼   ► are are united in favor of Santa Claus [TS]

00:31:41 ◼   ► they're getting these are letters that [TS]

00:31:43 ◼   ► are addressed to Kris Kringle at the [TS]

00:31:45 ◼   ► courthouse and [TS]

00:31:47 ◼   ► one of the postal worker says hey we get [TS]

00:31:50 ◼   ► all these letters friend to CNN we put [TS]

00:31:52 ◼   ► in the dead letter office [TS]

00:31:53 ◼   ► let's send him to the courthouse so the [TS]

00:31:56 ◼   ► trial is wrapping up it's not looking [TS]

00:31:58 ◼   ► good for Kris Kringle when suddenly and [TS]

00:32:00 ◼   ► if you've never seen Miracle on [TS]

00:32:01 ◼   ► thirty-fourth Street you've doubtlessly [TS]

00:32:04 ◼   ► seen some sort of homage onto the scene [TS]

00:32:08 ◼   ► where john Payne whips up the letter [TS]

00:32:10 ◼   ► that's been sent to the courthouse said [TS]

00:32:12 ◼   ► he says here here's a letter that [TS]

00:32:13 ◼   ► someone sent to Santa and the judge i [TS]

00:32:16 ◼   ► believe it's the judge it might be it [TS]

00:32:18 ◼   ► might be District Attorney miles Archer [TS]

00:32:20 ◼   ► says one letter what does that prove it [TS]

00:32:23 ◼   ► hits bring in boy yeah seven sacks of [TS]

00:32:27 ◼   ► mail from there on my desk and WS and [TS]

00:32:31 ◼   ► young Todd judged gene Lockhart's desk [TS]

00:32:33 ◼   ► which proves because the federal [TS]

00:32:36 ◼   ► government says that this guy's sentence [TS]

00:32:38 ◼   ► should get the mail [TS]

00:32:40 ◼   ► therefore Edmund Quinn AK Kris Kringle [TS]

00:32:43 ◼   ► AKA crazy old man is in fact Santa so [TS]

00:32:47 ◼   ► this movie is really about a strong [TS]

00:32:49 ◼   ► federal government and how important [TS]

00:32:51 ◼   ► that is doing exactly [TS]

00:32:53 ◼   ► now do you like it Lisa it's all about [TS]

00:32:55 ◼   ► government intervention communism I [TS]

00:32:57 ◼   ► commercialism and that's our workers of [TS]

00:32:59 ◼   ► the world saving the day it's about the [TS]

00:33:02 ◼   ► proletariat come on [TS]

00:33:03 ◼   ► so really its many things to all people [TS]

00:33:06 ◼   ► is everything alright it's terrible it's [TS]

00:33:09 ◼   ► a guy in a red suit in a black boys you [TS]

00:33:11 ◼   ► ready yeah is it red though we don't [TS]

00:33:12 ◼   ► even know mostly it's just a very funny [TS]

00:33:14 ◼   ► movie which is there that's right it is [TS]

00:33:16 ◼   ► it's funny and it's charm it holds up to [TS]

00:33:18 ◼   ► it hold up it mean as a you know 68-year [TS]

00:33:22 ◼   ► old movie it's still pretty entertaining [TS]

00:33:25 ◼   ► it it it really is for very funny very [TS]

00:33:28 ◼   ► entertaining [TS]

00:33:29 ◼   ► it's a good family movie i think i was [TS]

00:33:31 ◼   ► actually yeah more to the story [TS]

00:33:34 ◼   ► what because as Lisa mentioned earlier [TS]

00:33:38 ◼   ► in the movie The Skeptical Natalie Wood [TS]

00:33:40 ◼   ► character says okay if you're Santa you [TS]

00:33:43 ◼   ► bring me what I want for Christmas will [TS]

00:33:45 ◼   ► of course little girl what you want [TS]

00:33:46 ◼   ► property real Natalie Wood 16 likely [TS]

00:33:50 ◼   ► yeah Natalie Wood wants to move out on [TS]

00:33:53 ◼   ► out of Manhattan and into the suburbs [TS]

00:33:55 ◼   ► and so she show santa picture of a house [TS]

00:34:00 ◼   ► yes that's all saturday doesn't have [TS]

00:34:03 ◼   ► enough for a down payment all and they [TS]

00:34:07 ◼   ► that that plot line is dropped and [TS]

00:34:09 ◼   ► Natalie would see Santa get out well [TS]

00:34:11 ◼   ► it's great that he's not crazy but he's [TS]

00:34:13 ◼   ► also just a nice guy with a beard [TS]

00:34:14 ◼   ► because he didn't get me what I wanted [TS]

00:34:16 ◼   ► for Christmas and uh they're driving [TS]

00:34:20 ◼   ► home from the party on a roof that Santa [TS]

00:34:22 ◼   ► gave them here drive this way [TS]

00:34:24 ◼   ► san Diego's her roots by the way he's [TS]

00:34:26 ◼   ► very good at now he is the mapquest of [TS]

00:34:28 ◼   ► the nineteen forties and they drive by [TS]

00:34:32 ◼   ► this house that is for sale that [TS]

00:34:35 ◼   ► surprisingly like the house fit Natalie [TS]

00:34:37 ◼   ► Wood was asking for [TS]

00:34:38 ◼   ► oh no I got me up and that is when john [TS]

00:34:43 ◼   ► Payne like closes the deal with Moreno [TS]

00:34:45 ◼   ► era it's me let's buy this house you [TS]

00:34:48 ◼   ► can't say no you'll disappoint your kids [TS]

00:34:50 ◼   ► well as as my girlfriend also pointed [TS]

00:34:52 ◼   ► out they've been dating since maybe [TS]

00:34:53 ◼   ► thanksgiving yeah it's Christmas latest [TS]

00:34:56 ◼   ► a whirlwind romance john Payne is like [TS]

00:34:59 ◼   ► you said he is he's he's a slick [TS]

00:35:01 ◼   ► operator gotta work fast in 1947 you [TS]

00:35:03 ◼   ► don't know whether you're going to get [TS]

00:35:04 ◼   ► the grip and yeah the korean war is [TS]

00:35:06 ◼   ► about to break out in 34 years you might [TS]

00:35:09 ◼   ► get set off to so maybe we should be a [TS]

00:35:12 ◼   ► whip there's a bit of dialogue where he [TS]

00:35:14 ◼   ► says you know let's go have dinner at [TS]

00:35:16 ◼   ► the usual place so there's this you get [TS]

00:35:18 ◼   ► the impression that this is actually we [TS]

00:35:20 ◼   ► just haven't seen it there is a [TS]

00:35:21 ◼   ► whirlwind romance going on behind the [TS]

00:35:23 ◼   ► scenes because they give that piece of [TS]

00:35:25 ◼   ► dialogue we have we see very little [TS]

00:35:26 ◼   ► evidence of it but it's very clearly [TS]

00:35:28 ◼   ► happening there is a scene where I I [TS]

00:35:30 ◼   ► felt like you know in our conversation [TS]

00:35:31 ◼   ► that came to our conversation about the [TS]

00:35:33 ◼   ► empire strikes back I turn to my au turn [TS]

00:35:35 ◼   ► my girlfriend is it do you think they've [TS]

00:35:37 ◼   ► had sex but this point and she looks at [TS]

00:35:39 ◼   ► them in the screen where he like she [TS]

00:35:41 ◼   ► like puts a hand on her shoulder and she [TS]

00:35:42 ◼   ► goes [TS]

00:35:42 ◼   ► yo yeah well she's a divorce a young [TS]

00:35:44 ◼   ► she's known the test of a man's already [TS]

00:35:47 ◼   ► way too i reacting so he's a lawyer what [TS]

00:35:51 ◼   ► yeah so i wanted to mention a while [TS]

00:35:53 ◼   ► sorry Phil you you have that we keep [TS]

00:35:55 ◼   ► interrupting your magical conclusion [TS]

00:35:57 ◼   ► head big and exactly thank you Jason for [TS]

00:36:00 ◼   ► recognizing my magic maybe I'm Santa [TS]

00:36:03 ◼   ► Claus maybe sotelo let's prove it a man [TS]

00:36:05 ◼   ► needs something to keep warm so what [TS]

00:36:07 ◼   ► happens is they're they're saying well [TS]

00:36:10 ◼   ► isn't this a coinkydink that we wound up [TS]

00:36:12 ◼   ► to [TS]

00:36:12 ◼   ► house and then they notice haha by the [TS]

00:36:15 ◼   ► fireplace it's a cane just like the one [TS]

00:36:18 ◼   ► the kriss kringle uses oh no oh my god [TS]

00:36:21 ◼   ► killer leaves a signature that's already [TS]

00:36:23 ◼   ► followed them there it came from inside [TS]

00:36:26 ◼   ► the house is waiting inside the closet [TS]

00:36:28 ◼   ► and the moment that the cameras cut they [TS]

00:36:31 ◼   ► are dead yep [TS]

00:36:32 ◼   ► grandpa's this friday because we hit [TS]

00:36:36 ◼   ► Sawyer with an umbrella though I was [TS]

00:36:38 ◼   ► completed out of brother somebody was [TS]

00:36:40 ◼   ► easy with the cane people back and forth [TS]

00:36:42 ◼   ► between the came in the umbrella it he [TS]

00:36:44 ◼   ► hits him on the head and it then raises [TS]

00:36:46 ◼   ► a bump and developed and the point of [TS]

00:36:48 ◼   ► guys you a question mr. Macy personally [TS]

00:36:50 ◼   ► fires granville Sawyer in the courtroom [TS]

00:36:53 ◼   ► don't be unemployed and I'm happy at [TS]

00:36:55 ◼   ► Christmastime everyone within the early [TS]

00:36:58 ◼   ► part of the film he has the cane with [TS]

00:36:59 ◼   ► him but when he realizes that the [TS]

00:37:01 ◼   ► umbrella is actually better for bringing [TS]

00:37:03 ◼   ► new smart realizes he doesn't need to [TS]

00:37:05 ◼   ► keep your website he discards it that I [TS]

00:37:07 ◼   ► do like mr. Bailey's final wine which is [TS]

00:37:09 ◼   ► that maybe he didn't do such a wonderful [TS]

00:37:11 ◼   ► day after all [TS]

00:37:12 ◼   ► yeah that's great he's crazy too [TS]

00:37:15 ◼   ► although as a kid that line really [TS]

00:37:16 ◼   ► confused me [TS]

00:37:17 ◼   ► it's a you know and then I guess really [TS]

00:37:19 ◼   ► at the end maureen o'hara believes in [TS]

00:37:20 ◼   ► the possibility of magic again because [TS]

00:37:22 ◼   ► she's already been made to believe she [TS]

00:37:24 ◼   ► signs the letter that Susie rights said [TS]

00:37:26 ◼   ► giving you two [TS]

00:37:27 ◼   ► yes but this is the final clincher like [TS]

00:37:28 ◼   ► maybe he was real all along [TS]

00:37:31 ◼   ► what do I care i'm going to bed with [TS]

00:37:32 ◼   ► john Payne tonight he says i love I'd [TS]

00:37:37 ◼   ► like so the moment got me this time and [TS]

00:37:38 ◼   ► it get sometimes it gets mean sometimes [TS]

00:37:40 ◼   ► it doesn't doesn't but this time it did [TS]

00:37:42 ◼   ► is the moment where he's a so he's he's [TS]

00:37:44 ◼   ► listening to all the all the kids who [TS]

00:37:48 ◼   ► are coming into macy's and sit on [TS]

00:37:49 ◼   ► Santa's lap and they asked for it and [TS]

00:37:50 ◼   ► the first is the lady who's the most New [TS]

00:37:52 ◼   ► York lady operator where she's like [TS]

00:37:55 ◼   ► writer we get it [TS]

00:37:56 ◼   ► I don't get you tell me to go to me [TS]

00:37:58 ◼   ► symbols even is our mutual [TS]

00:38:00 ◼   ► I don't get it she just keeps saying [TS]

00:38:02 ◼   ► it's so new york it's so amazing but the [TS]

00:38:05 ◼   ► one that gets me is the the little Dutch [TS]

00:38:07 ◼   ► girl the Dutch girl I mean I mean [TS]

00:38:09 ◼   ► because when you think it's a cute scene [TS]

00:38:11 ◼   ► because he knows he can he just like I [TS]

00:38:13 ◼   ► told her you don't speak Dutch he speaks [TS]

00:38:15 ◼   ► Dutch and they sing the center class [TS]

00:38:16 ◼   ► song was about to class got a boo-boo [TS]

00:38:19 ◼   ► it's so great but think about why she's [TS]

00:38:21 ◼   ► a Dutch orphan in the 1940s her parents [TS]

00:38:24 ◼   ► were killed if not in the Holocaust [TS]

00:38:26 ◼   ► you know in world war two and she has [TS]

00:38:28 ◼   ► been shipped over to the United States [TS]

00:38:30 ◼   ► to find a new family and it is it gets a [TS]

00:38:34 ◼   ► little dusty when I when she's just so [TS]

00:38:36 ◼   ► sad so enjoyed your eyes are so wide and [TS]

00:38:40 ◼   ► just haunted [TS]

00:38:41 ◼   ► oh and then Santa Claus is like he's got [TS]

00:38:43 ◼   ► the Dutch songs and all of that knits [TS]

00:38:45 ◼   ► and when he asks her in Dutch what she [TS]

00:38:47 ◼   ► wants she basically says I don't need [TS]

00:38:49 ◼   ► anything because I have a family now [TS]

00:38:51 ◼   ► Oh gets me every time oh maybe he really [TS]

00:38:55 ◼   ► is Santa Claus you Santa Claus dad I [TS]

00:38:59 ◼   ► would need approved by a competent [TS]

00:39:00 ◼   ► authority federal government little [TS]

00:39:02 ◼   ► Johnny shang let's take you to the judge [TS]

00:39:05 ◼   ► he's crazy too [TS]

00:39:06 ◼   ► so like as i mentioned earlier this is [TS]

00:39:09 ◼   ► my wife's favorite Christmas movie end [TS]

00:39:11 ◼   ► as i said before you know she can't [TS]

00:39:14 ◼   ► explain it either [TS]

00:39:15 ◼   ► she is you know she she's Jewish [TS]

00:39:18 ◼   ► she is not particularly a believer in [TS]

00:39:21 ◼   ► any of the other in anything and yet so [TS]

00:39:24 ◼   ► therefore this movie should have no [TS]

00:39:25 ◼   ► residence hall and yet it is delightful [TS]

00:39:27 ◼   ► and she showed it to me for the first [TS]

00:39:28 ◼   ► time whatever ten years ago it and I [TS]

00:39:30 ◼   ► agree completely this is my favorite [TS]

00:39:31 ◼   ► Christmas movie i love it's strange [TS]

00:39:33 ◼   ► mixture of like never too cynical never [TS]

00:39:38 ◼   ► to glassy-eyed uh funny people out for [TS]

00:39:42 ◼   ► their own self-interest but also [TS]

00:39:43 ◼   ► learning some things along the way very [TS]

00:39:45 ◼   ► new york in a in a forties New York way [TS]

00:39:48 ◼   ► that I kind of love I you know I i think [TS]

00:39:51 ◼   ► that uh that mr. Gailey that john Payne [TS]

00:39:54 ◼   ► does is great i think just just [TS]

00:39:56 ◼   ► spectacular in the way he like he said [TS]

00:39:58 ◼   ► he's got the game he is playing the [TS]

00:40:00 ◼   ► games he's playing the legal games the [TS]

00:40:02 ◼   ► romancing marine O'Hara so good and [TS]

00:40:05 ◼   ► edmund gwenn is fantastic [TS]

00:40:07 ◼   ► I mean you if ever there was a man you [TS]

00:40:09 ◼   ► would believe in Santa Claus is that man [TS]

00:40:11 ◼   ► so I love this movie it is just a [TS]

00:40:13 ◼   ► there's something about it it walks the [TS]

00:40:15 ◼   ► line it doesn't go too far to to you [TS]

00:40:19 ◼   ► know into areas that would make it i [TS]

00:40:20 ◼   ► think not as pleasant a movie twist my [TS]

00:40:22 ◼   ► arm and I guess I kind of like it all [TS]

00:40:24 ◼   ► your heart grew one size [TS]

00:40:27 ◼   ► yeah just my heart's really about the [TS]

00:40:29 ◼   ► same size i agree with you completely [TS]

00:40:31 ◼   ► i'm not sure i put this in my as my [TS]

00:40:34 ◼   ► first favorite but it's definitely in [TS]

00:40:36 ◼   ► the top three I loved it since I was a [TS]

00:40:38 ◼   ► kid my dad and [TS]

00:40:39 ◼   ► reduce me to it and that was back before [TS]

00:40:42 ◼   ► i got the the more adult humor that you [TS]

00:40:46 ◼   ► know the knowing looks being exchanged [TS]

00:40:48 ◼   ► between Fred Mertz and the judge and all [TS]

00:40:49 ◼   ► the other stuff it's just it's it's it's [TS]

00:40:52 ◼   ► really sweet and it's genuinely funny [TS]

00:40:54 ◼   ► and i'm not bothered at all by the fact [TS]

00:40:57 ◼   ► that a Christmas movie suggest that you [TS]

00:41:00 ◼   ► should put faith in something that you [TS]

00:41:01 ◼   ► can't necessarily see so I think it's [TS]

00:41:04 ◼   ► great [TS]

00:41:05 ◼   ► yeah i agree with Steve on that I mean [TS]

00:41:06 ◼   ► I've seen this movie probably I I think [TS]

00:41:08 ◼   ► saying 30 x is probably not unreasonable [TS]

00:41:11 ◼   ► given i think i've watched this movie [TS]

00:41:12 ◼   ► every Christmas for most of my life [TS]

00:41:15 ◼   ► it's one of my mom's favorite movies i [TS]

00:41:16 ◼   ► started watching it when when I was kid [TS]

00:41:19 ◼   ► and like Steve I agree you know even as [TS]

00:41:22 ◼   ► someone who maybe not but may not [TS]

00:41:24 ◼   ► believe in Santa Claus i do you think [TS]

00:41:26 ◼   ► the idea of you know there are [TS]

00:41:27 ◼   ► intangible things to believe in is a [TS]

00:41:29 ◼   ► worthwhile message because there are [TS]

00:41:31 ◼   ► concepts at least if nothing else as [TS]

00:41:33 ◼   ► mister day as mr. Gailey points out that [TS]

00:41:36 ◼   ► are that are worth something in the end [TS]

00:41:37 ◼   ► its start your great performances all [TS]

00:41:41 ◼   ► around it's it's well-written it's a [TS]

00:41:43 ◼   ► funny movie there are a lot of movies [TS]

00:41:45 ◼   ► from this area and from earlier is that [TS]

00:41:46 ◼   ► don't hold up and this one really does [TS]

00:41:49 ◼   ► and it manages to be genuine [TS]

00:41:52 ◼   ► I think about a lot of things so and I i [TS]

00:41:55 ◼   ► never really took away any of the [TS]

00:41:56 ◼   ► commercialism complaints about it i [TS]

00:41:58 ◼   ► guess maybe I store took that as a [TS]

00:41:59 ◼   ► younger kid i internalized that the text [TS]

00:42:02 ◼   ► more than the subtext so yeah this is [TS]

00:42:05 ◼   ► definitely in my top christmas movies [TS]

00:42:08 ◼   ► i'd say it's probably like number two [TS]

00:42:09 ◼   ► like we're behind die hard but hey [TS]

00:42:11 ◼   ► oh no it's perfect Jeff Luc very similar [TS]

00:42:14 ◼   ► it's easily in my top five more but it [TS]

00:42:18 ◼   ► probably number five [TS]

00:42:20 ◼   ► but yeah i love i love the earnestness [TS]

00:42:22 ◼   ► without being square or overly corny [TS]

00:42:26 ◼   ► it's like it has a nice balance between [TS]

00:42:28 ◼   ► the humor and and the just genuineness [TS]

00:42:31 ◼   ► of it for a dissenting opinion we go to [TS]

00:42:33 ◼   ► judge miser she's crazy to read verses [TS]

00:42:41 ◼   ► waving a cigar and her right eye I only [TS]

00:42:44 ◼   ► saw the movie for the first time last [TS]

00:42:45 ◼   ► night so I [TS]

00:42:48 ◼   ► yeah well you know how you're always [TS]

00:42:51 ◼   ► parents introduced me to this movie I [TS]

00:42:53 ◼   ► associate with christmas everyone is [TS]

00:42:55 ◼   ► saying that is very sweet and I like [TS]

00:42:57 ◼   ► thinking about the movies that make up [TS]

00:42:58 ◼   ► your internal holiday traditions i come [TS]

00:43:01 ◼   ► from a family where our family christmas [TS]

00:43:02 ◼   ► was the lion in winter so off it's why [TS]

00:43:06 ◼   ► we do not watch me and why I did not get [TS]

00:43:08 ◼   ► around to Miracle on thirty-fourth [TS]

00:43:09 ◼   ► Street why did a lot [TS]

00:43:10 ◼   ► test about it i will say that my [TS]

00:43:12 ◼   ► grandparents who we lived with when I [TS]

00:43:15 ◼   ► was a child and my mother hated this [TS]

00:43:17 ◼   ► movie so I didn't see it until I was [TS]

00:43:19 ◼   ► growing up either [TS]

00:43:20 ◼   ► there's a lot of terrible people out [TS]

00:43:21 ◼   ► there David that's right some of the [TS]

00:43:23 ◼   ► worst our cover so people blossoms that [TS]

00:43:27 ◼   ► moist I like i said i found the movie to [TS]

00:43:31 ◼   ► be fascinating because I feel like it's [TS]

00:43:32 ◼   ► sort of a snapshot that anticipates a [TS]

00:43:35 ◼   ► lot of the cultural currents of the [TS]

00:43:37 ◼   ► nineteen fifties yeah [TS]

00:43:38 ◼   ► reverberating down it's a fifties movie [TS]

00:43:41 ◼   ► it is the United 47 well that's what is [TS]

00:43:44 ◼   ► it basically is it it basically [TS]

00:43:46 ◼   ► encapsulate suppose for ethos and how [TS]

00:43:49 ◼   ► people are beginning to move on with [TS]

00:43:50 ◼   ► your lives after the war and i find that [TS]

00:43:53 ◼   ► kind of transitional period really [TS]

00:43:55 ◼   ► fascinating so when I was watching the [TS]

00:43:56 ◼   ► movie and thinking about how this movie [TS]

00:43:59 ◼   ► was kind of capturing a society and flex [TS]

00:44:01 ◼   ► for people are still fucking figuring [TS]

00:44:02 ◼   ► out their rules once they return to the [TS]

00:44:03 ◼   ► states like that that's what made the [TS]

00:44:06 ◼   ► movie interesting to me and I like all [TS]

00:44:07 ◼   ► the period details because i'm a sucker [TS]

00:44:10 ◼   ► for vintage decor and Natalie Wood has [TS]

00:44:13 ◼   ► one of the best dirty looks in the [TS]

00:44:16 ◼   ► business i'm looking forward to showing [TS]

00:44:17 ◼   ► this to Trixie um you know it'll be [TS]

00:44:20 ◼   ► interesting to see what her reaction is [TS]

00:44:21 ◼   ► to it [TS]

00:44:22 ◼   ► where another family that doesn't talk [TS]

00:44:23 ◼   ► about Santa on like she'll bring it home [TS]

00:44:25 ◼   ► and say Santa this and that right hmmm [TS]

00:44:27 ◼   ► interesting belief system you got there [TS]

00:44:29 ◼   ► but we don't push it we don't use it as [TS]

00:44:32 ◼   ► like sometimes I regret the decision [TS]

00:44:34 ◼   ► because we can't use them as a threat [TS]

00:44:35 ◼   ► but that's what he's there for now [TS]

00:44:39 ◼   ► yeah but other than that you know we [TS]

00:44:40 ◼   ► don't push it and it'll be interesting [TS]

00:44:43 ◼   ► to see what her take is when you know my [TS]

00:44:45 ◼   ► god there's a child is insurance [TS]

00:44:46 ◼   ► worldview you know it's it's it's [TS]

00:44:49 ◼   ► pleasant enough it's not one of my least [TS]

00:44:51 ◼   ► favorite Christmas oh I in all [TS]

00:44:55 ◼   ► seriousness i would say that on the [TS]

00:44:57 ◼   ► video blur i would [TS]

00:44:58 ◼   ► I'm i would say give it give it give [TS]

00:45:00 ◼   ► another look because I think there are a [TS]

00:45:01 ◼   ► lot of levels to this film and and that [TS]

00:45:03 ◼   ► if what you come away with is about the [TS]

00:45:05 ◼   ► commercialism of it i mean i think the [TS]

00:45:07 ◼   ► point the film is actually to the the [TS]

00:45:09 ◼   ► people who are rising above the [TS]

00:45:10 ◼   ► commercialism it is set at macys so yes [TS]

00:45:13 ◼   ► that's true but that's what Chris is [TS]

00:45:15 ◼   ► more point is you know he's doing things [TS]

00:45:18 ◼   ► like making that little Dutch girl happy [TS]

00:45:20 ◼   ► and you know that it's more important [TS]

00:45:23 ◼   ► things than the commercials which is why [TS]

00:45:25 ◼   ► he sends people to Gimbels I mean it [TS]

00:45:26 ◼   ► happens that forms a perfect synergy [TS]

00:45:28 ◼   ► with macy wanting to get more people [TS]

00:45:30 ◼   ► into his store but that's not the whole [TS]

00:45:31 ◼   ► reason why you did it but still you [TS]

00:45:33 ◼   ► gotta move product and i write those I i [TS]

00:45:36 ◼   ► am impressed with how competent they [TS]

00:45:38 ◼   ► allow Doris Walker to be as the single [TS]

00:45:40 ◼   ► female divorce a.m she's she's doing it [TS]

00:45:43 ◼   ► for herself I mean she's risen up high [TS]

00:45:45 ◼   ► in the in the chain and macy she's in [TS]

00:45:47 ◼   ► charge of the whole parade yeah well at [TS]

00:45:48 ◼   ► least it was quite we're not that far [TS]

00:45:50 ◼   ► removed from an area where to world war [TS]

00:45:53 ◼   ► two when women were quite commonly in [TS]

00:45:56 ◼   ► the workplace because no one else was [TS]

00:45:57 ◼   ► was around saying this would not have [TS]

00:46:00 ◼   ► been I I don't think shocking except if [TS]

00:46:03 ◼   ► you're in the the Catholic defense [TS]

00:46:04 ◼   ► league or whatever the hell was that [TS]

00:46:06 ◼   ► protest well I'm heartened that they [TS]

00:46:08 ◼   ► stuck with it for at least a couple [TS]

00:46:09 ◼   ► years at war until until Eisenhower came [TS]

00:46:12 ◼   ► around and set us all street she does [TS]

00:46:14 ◼   ► put clowns on the pirate float in the [TS]

00:46:16 ◼   ► opening scene which I find some horses [TS]

00:46:18 ◼   ► in America yeah yeah yeahs Connor she is [TS]

00:46:22 ◼   ► she's concerned about how crisp has [TS]

00:46:25 ◼   ► latent maniacal tendencies but she [TS]

00:46:27 ◼   ► doesn't seem to have a problem with [TS]

00:46:28 ◼   ► letting him touch her daughter into bed [TS]

00:46:29 ◼   ► with a check find a little strange but [TS]

00:46:32 ◼   ► otherwise very competent well you know [TS]

00:46:34 ◼   ► you went through that those busy single [TS]

00:46:35 ◼   ► working mothers need to need to you that [TS]

00:46:38 ◼   ► utilizes much second party help us take [TS]

00:46:40 ◼   ► a man you got Santa Claus to put your [TS]

00:46:42 ◼   ► kid to bed you make use of that exactly [TS]

00:46:44 ◼   ► I think we would be remiss if we did not [TS]

00:46:45 ◼   ► mention the greatest newspaper headline [TS]

00:46:48 ◼   ► of all time [TS]

00:46:49 ◼   ► oh yes yes please Kris Kringle crazy [TS]

00:46:53 ◼   ► court case coming calamity cry kitties [TS]

00:46:56 ◼   ► ok ok yes also I i do like at some point [TS]

00:47:00 ◼   ► when they when when [TS]

00:47:03 ◼   ► Charlie the political fixer is telling [TS]

00:47:05 ◼   ► the judge you know why you shouldn't say [TS]

00:47:07 ◼   ► there's no Santa Claus and he mentions [TS]

00:47:09 ◼   ► the kids reading the newspaper which i [TS]

00:47:10 ◼   ► kinda liked wasn't supposed to call i [TS]

00:47:12 ◼   ► gagged I guess the kids probably were [TS]

00:47:14 ◼   ► reading the newspaper said that point so [TS]

00:47:18 ◼   ► i think yeah they had to get informed [TS]

00:47:20 ◼   ► somehow there was no twitter for the [TS]

00:47:21 ◼   ► latest on the very next moment where [TS]

00:47:23 ◼   ► where he sees that the case has gotten [TS]

00:47:26 ◼   ► put up on the on the front page and he's [TS]

00:47:28 ◼   ► like oh this is good this is good this [TS]

00:47:30 ◼   ► is good for me it's good for my business [TS]

00:47:31 ◼   ► it's good that we're getting the [TS]

00:47:32 ◼   ► publicity the newspaper is a big part of [TS]

00:47:35 ◼   ► that too and yes [TS]

00:47:36 ◼   ► in addition to the the calamity cry [TS]

00:47:39 ◼   ► kitties i love the the line early on [TS]

00:47:41 ◼   ► about these pirius Santa Clauses that's [TS]

00:47:44 ◼   ► just fantastic [TS]

00:47:46 ◼   ► substituting for experienced Santa [TS]

00:47:47 ◼   ► Clauses also never noticed until this [TS]

00:47:50 ◼   ► viewing that the employee elevator at [TS]

00:47:52 ◼   ► macy's is far too small for this is that [TS]

00:47:55 ◼   ► building apparently she and Shellhammer [TS]

00:47:58 ◼   ► doors walker and Cheryl Shellhammer have [TS]

00:48:00 ◼   ► to wedge themselves out from behind [TS]

00:48:02 ◼   ► about 60 people in order to get to the [TS]

00:48:04 ◼   ► meeting with macy alright let me tell [TS]

00:48:06 ◼   ► you about a sponsor on the uncomfortable [TS]

00:48:07 ◼   ► this is a is a good one [TS]

00:48:09 ◼   ► it's a kickstarter project for max [TS]

00:48:11 ◼   ► Temkin co-creator of cards against [TS]

00:48:12 ◼   ► humanity [TS]

00:48:13 ◼   ► it's got an interesting name are you [TS]

00:48:15 ◼   ► ready here it is it secret [TS]

00:48:17 ◼   ► Hitler that's right now you may be [TS]

00:48:18 ◼   ► saying to yourself why would you put [TS]

00:48:20 ◼   ► Hitler in the name of a product but [TS]

00:48:22 ◼   ► you've got here with this product is and [TS]

00:48:25 ◼   ► it'll make sense and i also subscribe to [TS]

00:48:27 ◼   ► the mel brooks line of thought which is [TS]

00:48:30 ◼   ► the more things we can say to demean or [TS]

00:48:32 ◼   ► mock hitler the better anyway secret [TS]

00:48:37 ◼   ► Hitler is a game it's a inspired by [TS]

00:48:41 ◼   ► classic party games like mafia or [TS]

00:48:43 ◼   ► werewolf or the resistance if you know [TS]

00:48:45 ◼   ► those it introduces some new mechanics [TS]

00:48:46 ◼   ► to the genre anyway if you're familiar [TS]

00:48:49 ◼   ► with any of those sort of social [TS]

00:48:50 ◼   ► deduction games you will get a little [TS]

00:48:52 ◼   ► bit about what secret Hitler is all [TS]

00:48:54 ◼   ► about the liberal team is trying to keep [TS]

00:48:57 ◼   ► control of the government this is [TS]

00:48:58 ◼   ► definitely inspired by the rise of the [TS]

00:49:00 ◼   ► Nazis in World before world war two and [TS]

00:49:04 ◼   ► they are a majority group right but they [TS]

00:49:06 ◼   ► have distrust and they need to learn to [TS]

00:49:08 ◼   ► work together to overcome fascism and [TS]

00:49:11 ◼   ► assassinate Hitler before he can take [TS]

00:49:13 ◼   ► over the government so it's super [TS]

00:49:15 ◼   ► intense [TS]

00:49:16 ◼   ► but it's also really interesting and how [TS]

00:49:18 ◼   ► it tries to take a page out of history [TS]

00:49:20 ◼   ► and understand the dynamics that led to [TS]

00:49:24 ◼   ► the rise of somebody who did not have [TS]

00:49:25 ◼   ► the support of the majority but that [TS]

00:49:28 ◼   ► person ended up taking control of the [TS]

00:49:30 ◼   ► government so it is a little bit of [TS]

00:49:32 ◼   ► history and a little bit of social [TS]

00:49:34 ◼   ► commentary and also it falls into this [TS]

00:49:36 ◼   ► social deduction category for played [TS]

00:49:38 ◼   ► werewolf you know what i'm talking about [TS]

00:49:40 ◼   ► very fun and very cool it's on [TS]

00:49:43 ◼   ► Kickstarter now it's already funded [TS]

00:49:44 ◼   ► 3,500 people have already backed it so [TS]

00:49:47 ◼   ► when you back it on Kickstarter which [TS]

00:49:49 ◼   ► you can do through december 23rd you're [TS]

00:49:51 ◼   ► going to get the game you're going to [TS]

00:49:52 ◼   ► get the game and you can learn a lot [TS]

00:49:54 ◼   ► more about it see it in action watch the [TS]

00:49:55 ◼   ► videos at secret Hitler dot-com that's [TS]

00:49:58 ◼   ► where you need to go secret Hitler com [TS]

00:50:00 ◼   ► max Temkin who created co-created cards [TS]

00:50:03 ◼   ► against humanity smart guy funny guy [TS]

00:50:05 ◼   ► this is a great idea for a game he's [TS]

00:50:07 ◼   ► done some other game design in the last [TS]

00:50:09 ◼   ► few years that I've really enjoyed i [TS]

00:50:10 ◼   ► encourage you to check it out especially [TS]

00:50:12 ◼   ► if you played any of those social [TS]

00:50:14 ◼   ► deduction games like mafia or werewolf [TS]

00:50:16 ◼   ► I think you will find secret Hitler a [TS]

00:50:18 ◼   ► really intriguing spin on the concepts [TS]

00:50:21 ◼   ► go to secret Hitler calm and thanks to [TS]

00:50:24 ◼   ► max and everybody else pine secret [TS]

00:50:26 ◼   ► Hitler calm for sponsoring the [TS]

00:50:28 ◼   ► uncomfortable and by the way phil was [TS]

00:50:30 ◼   ► the secret Hitler all along i love the [TS]

00:50:32 ◼   ► drunken mrs. Shellhammer by the way that [TS]

00:50:34 ◼   ► is all made by i could not totally so [TS]

00:50:39 ◼   ► city of me and she's just laughing I [TS]

00:50:42 ◼   ► made them triple string a movie in which [TS]

00:50:45 ◼   ► the drunken Santa Claus from the first [TS]

00:50:47 ◼   ► scene meets drunken mrs. Shellhammer [TS]

00:50:48 ◼   ► would be minus me or my Christmas movie [TS]

00:50:52 ◼   ► it's just drink and laugh together made [TS]

00:50:54 ◼   ► the martinis triple strength and she [TS]

00:50:56 ◼   ► feels wonderful miracle streets of [TS]

00:51:02 ◼   ► street much about their marriage to [TS]

00:51:04 ◼   ► Arkady is away colleges yes this is [TS]

00:51:08 ◼   ► hitter there and there is no empty nest [TS]

00:51:10 ◼   ► syndrome to them at all what's a better [TS]

00:51:12 ◼   ► ya rappin martinis for dinner every [TS]

00:51:14 ◼   ► night mostly off me [TS]

00:51:16 ◼   ► mom dad I'm home from college I'm [TS]

00:51:18 ◼   ► started we have a jar of cocktail one of [TS]

00:51:20 ◼   ► the few ppl unions and that is held in [TS]

00:51:23 ◼   ► another in another world they are Nick [TS]

00:51:25 ◼   ► and Nora Charles yeah we haven't eaten [TS]

00:51:26 ◼   ► since nineteen forty-two [TS]

00:51:28 ◼   ► I did I can enjoy the just every time I [TS]

00:51:31 ◼   ► love that she gets the witch wind the [TS]

00:51:33 ◼   ► telephone is roll that's just the best [TS]

00:51:35 ◼   ► yeah it's the best city of me go and [TS]

00:51:40 ◼   ► there's no no there's no reason that [TS]

00:51:41 ◼   ► that's in that movie there's no reason [TS]

00:51:43 ◼   ► it's there other than its zany hey [TS]

00:51:45 ◼   ► speaking of loveless marriages let's [TS]

00:51:47 ◼   ► talk about life in winter [TS]

00:51:48 ◼   ► alrighty street let's do it alright [TS]

00:51:51 ◼   ► alright so we start with theme music [TS]

00:51:55 ◼   ► straight out of an omen film as I was [TS]

00:51:58 ◼   ► watching I said they're gonna be like [TS]

00:52:00 ◼   ► three panels and then tap out just [TS]

00:52:02 ◼   ► because the opening credits because it [TS]

00:52:04 ◼   ► really so would you care to imitate the [TS]

00:52:06 ◼   ► open you know music hate to put you on [TS]

00:52:08 ◼   ► the spot but you do a very good job [TS]

00:52:11 ◼   ► oh it's all right for people from [TS]

00:52:15 ◼   ► different situation to love my dad used [TS]

00:52:19 ◼   ► to run around that was singing raging [TS]

00:52:21 ◼   ► raging latissimus starside at the [TS]

00:52:24 ◼   ► perfect and that was pretty much always [TS]

00:52:26 ◼   ► saying along to the crowds we watched it [TS]

00:52:28 ◼   ► every year Christmas as a terrorist [TS]

00:52:29 ◼   ► family tradition the first time I [TS]

00:52:31 ◼   ► watched it took me like three tries to [TS]

00:52:34 ◼   ► realize it was a DSS array from a [TS]

00:52:36 ◼   ► Catholic Mass was like oh ok they're not [TS]

00:52:40 ◼   ► an NCAA you know they are not know the [TS]

00:52:43 ◼   ► year each 1183 icing [TS]

00:52:46 ◼   ► yes and this the scene England Henry the [TS]

00:52:50 ◼   ► second is the king and he is he is what [TS]

00:52:54 ◼   ► you might call a lion in winter because [TS]

00:52:58 ◼   ► he's a little bit old he needs to find [TS]

00:53:00 ◼   ► an error because his son Henry you know [TS]

00:53:03 ◼   ► died because he was trying to overthrow [TS]

00:53:05 ◼   ► his father I think additionally it is [TS]

00:53:07 ◼   ► water that this film is said it exactly [TS]

00:53:10 ◼   ► winter and yeah it's Christmas because [TS]

00:53:12 ◼   ► receive but it is not it is not England [TS]

00:53:15 ◼   ► it is not set in England it set in [TS]

00:53:17 ◼   ► France [TS]

00:53:17 ◼   ► yeah answer technically speaking Hindi [TS]

00:53:20 ◼   ► the second was the king of half of [TS]

00:53:21 ◼   ► friends at this point yes and that's [TS]

00:53:22 ◼   ► where the movie set yeah they ship the [TS]

00:53:24 ◼   ► ship it katharine hepburn in from London [TS]

00:53:27 ◼   ► for ya where she's locked up yeah I'm [TS]

00:53:29 ◼   ► and kept up there i think that you have [TS]

00:53:33 ◼   ► to understand about Henry that editing [TS]

00:53:34 ◼   ► second element is there basically one of [TS]

00:53:35 ◼   ► history's fun couples there these their [TS]

00:53:38 ◼   ► couples in history who significantly [TS]

00:53:40 ◼   ► shape culture change [TS]

00:53:42 ◼   ► and statecraft like the Emperor [TS]

00:53:43 ◼   ► Justinian and his wife [TS]

00:53:46 ◼   ► Theodora or um Napoleon and Josephine [TS]

00:53:49 ◼   ► and Henry and Eleanor and this movie is [TS]

00:53:53 ◼   ► is basically about just can't quit each [TS]

00:53:56 ◼   ► other random and they get it and it's [TS]

00:54:00 ◼   ► about a contentious family Christmas [TS]

00:54:02 ◼   ► guess what get what could be more [TS]

00:54:04 ◼   ► Christmassy than getting together [TS]

00:54:06 ◼   ► bringing the family from the far-flung [TS]

00:54:08 ◼   ► corners of your kingdom and no one gets [TS]

00:54:10 ◼   ► a long and dark use all the time and [TS]

00:54:13 ◼   ► tries to kill each other with sorts [TS]

00:54:15 ◼   ► well it does go on about you know the [TS]

00:54:16 ◼   ► tendency to revert to your childhood [TS]

00:54:18 ◼   ► roles in this case technically speaking [TS]

00:54:21 ◼   ► both Richard and John shouldn't even [TS]

00:54:23 ◼   ► facing the succession thing but again [TS]

00:54:25 ◼   ► Henry the younger died when he was [TS]

00:54:27 ◼   ► waging war against his dad and Henry the [TS]

00:54:29 ◼   ► second was so capable of holding a [TS]

00:54:31 ◼   ► grudge that when Henry the younger came [TS]

00:54:33 ◼   ► to like Henry the younger sent [TS]

00:54:35 ◼   ► emissaries to Henry with two deathbed [TS]

00:54:36 ◼   ► requests and the first most i'd like to [TS]

00:54:38 ◼   ► see you before i die father and the [TS]

00:54:40 ◼   ► answer was no and then the second [TS]

00:54:42 ◼   ► request that you please free my mother [TS]

00:54:44 ◼   ► on because by this point like Henry sons [TS]

00:54:46 ◼   ► were beginning to like overthrown was [TS]

00:54:48 ◼   ► like a hottie [TS]

00:54:49 ◼   ► please bring my mother from prison and [TS]

00:54:52 ◼   ► the answer that was also flat know like [TS]

00:54:53 ◼   ► Henry the second is the kind of guy who [TS]

00:54:56 ◼   ► really enjoys disappointing his children [TS]

00:54:59 ◼   ► when they disappointed him and what's [TS]

00:55:01 ◼   ► it's very much a the The Who's Afraid of [TS]

00:55:04 ◼   ► Virginia Woolf kind of paradigm it'sit's [TS]

00:55:07 ◼   ► George and Martha except they're both [TS]

00:55:09 ◼   ► more fun and more deadly and [TS]

00:55:12 ◼   ► bloodthirsty now the reason this is a [TS]

00:55:14 ◼   ► classic christmas movie in our house and [TS]

00:55:16 ◼   ► get my dad really really enjoyed movies [TS]

00:55:19 ◼   ► of a lot of a of back-and-forth [TS]

00:55:21 ◼   ► interplay you know he also enjoyed [TS]

00:55:23 ◼   ► please like that too [TS]

00:55:24 ◼   ► and indeed this was a play before it was [TS]

00:55:26 ◼   ► a movie you'd never know it [TS]

00:55:28 ◼   ► yeah as anyone who watches it wanted to [TS]

00:55:29 ◼   ► tell how could you tell this was a play [TS]

00:55:31 ◼   ► I mean there's a wide establishing shot [TS]

00:55:33 ◼   ► then there's ppl yapping in a room then [TS]

00:55:35 ◼   ► there's a wide establishing shot then [TS]

00:55:36 ◼   ► there's people you have another shot [TS]

00:55:37 ◼   ► goes on for several minutes yeah there's [TS]

00:55:39 ◼   ► a shot with all of them lined up talk it [TS]

00:55:42 ◼   ► follows the same basic rhythm is the [TS]

00:55:43 ◼   ► Star Wars prequels [TS]

00:55:46 ◼   ► except it's it's more popcorn movie than [TS]

00:55:49 ◼   ► me said a king you who do i have to [TS]

00:55:55 ◼   ► separate out my deep sentimental [TS]

00:55:56 ◼   ► fondness and my love for this against [TS]

00:55:58 ◼   ► the fact that visually it is totally not [TS]

00:56:01 ◼   ► a standard like the one thing i do [TS]

00:56:02 ◼   ► appreciate visually is it points out [TS]

00:56:04 ◼   ► that it really is not cool or fun or [TS]

00:56:07 ◼   ► beautiful to be living in an era where [TS]

00:56:09 ◼   ► there's no endure heat or sanitation or [TS]

00:56:12 ◼   ► you know brightly colored clothing or [TS]

00:56:14 ◼   ► anything like that so so I pretty much [TS]

00:56:16 ◼   ► just wondering reason King any dresses [TS]

00:56:18 ◼   ► like a hobo [TS]

00:56:19 ◼   ► well I appreciate that they don't [TS]

00:56:22 ◼   ► glamorize it and that they don't make it [TS]

00:56:25 ◼   ► look like it's you know that all silks [TS]

00:56:28 ◼   ► and linens and in jewels all the time [TS]

00:56:30 ◼   ► it's basically a bunch of super cold [TS]

00:56:33 ◼   ► people in a giant smoky stone structure [TS]

00:56:36 ◼   ► try not to choke and try not to get [TS]

00:56:38 ◼   ► killed by each other at the same time I [TS]

00:56:39 ◼   ► love the play and I really liked the [TS]

00:56:42 ◼   ► movie but i love the play and so i don't [TS]

00:56:45 ◼   ► i don't have the illusion that this is [TS]

00:56:47 ◼   ► the greatest movie on earth it is too [TS]

00:56:50 ◼   ► long [TS]

00:56:51 ◼   ► James Goldman adapted his own script and [TS]

00:56:53 ◼   ► and opening it out doesn't do any favors [TS]

00:56:56 ◼   ► when so much of it is still closed in [TS]

00:56:58 ◼   ► although anthony hopkins I think there's [TS]

00:57:01 ◼   ► just that moment where he says to tell [TS]

00:57:02 ◼   ► you never cold i would have come but you [TS]

00:57:04 ◼   ► never called like the first time I saw [TS]

00:57:07 ◼   ► that I kind of stopped Stockstill [TS]

00:57:09 ◼   ► because that that you know hit the heart [TS]

00:57:11 ◼   ► because it was just so raw [TS]

00:57:13 ◼   ► yes and so visceral so it's interesting [TS]

00:57:16 ◼   ► to watch his performance and you know i [TS]

00:57:18 ◼   ► like the actors who play Jeffrey and [TS]

00:57:20 ◼   ► John have evidently going on to have [TS]

00:57:21 ◼   ► long and distinguished career ever but [TS]

00:57:24 ◼   ► it's really none of those actors can [TS]

00:57:26 ◼   ► keep up with Peter O'Toole and Katharine [TS]

00:57:27 ◼   ► Hepburn oh no sir [TS]

00:57:29 ◼   ► so we're about 10 minutes into this and [TS]

00:57:30 ◼   ► i haven't actually discussed the plot [TS]

00:57:32 ◼   ► which i think is telling we could [TS]

00:57:33 ◼   ► because plot is not actually central to [TS]

00:57:35 ◼   ► this movie I'm not really I i can get I [TS]

00:57:38 ◼   ► can do the plot in about 20 seconds yeah [TS]

00:57:40 ◼   ► uh Peter O'Toole needs to find an heir [TS]

00:57:43 ◼   ► to the throne either going to have a [TS]

00:57:45 ◼   ► Christmas court where the King of France [TS]

00:57:47 ◼   ► is played by timothy dalton in one of [TS]

00:57:49 ◼   ► his his position as you first movie is [TS]

00:57:53 ◼   ► coming over to negotiate a peace treaty [TS]

00:57:55 ◼   ► are so he decides to get the [TS]

00:57:59 ◼   ► Eleanor of Aquitaine out of the deep [TS]

00:58:01 ◼   ► freeze brings her and brings in his [TS]

00:58:03 ◼   ► three sons all of whom to marry degrees [TS]

00:58:06 ◼   ► hatem and then the rest of the movie is [TS]

00:58:08 ◼   ► him fighting without Eleanor and him [TS]

00:58:11 ◼   ► fighting with the sun's as we try and [TS]

00:58:13 ◼   ► determine who the air is but really [TS]

00:58:15 ◼   ► that's not the important part the [TS]

00:58:17 ◼   ► important part is the interactions [TS]

00:58:19 ◼   ► between Henry and Eleanor that's the [TS]

00:58:21 ◼   ► entire of a fulcrum on which the movie [TS]

00:58:25 ◼   ► pivots and for my just to reveal my hand [TS]

00:58:29 ◼   ► i absolutely love the scenes between [TS]

00:58:31 ◼   ► Peter O'Toole and Katharine Hepburn I [TS]

00:58:33 ◼   ► think those make the movie alone with [TS]

00:58:35 ◼   ► watching I'm less inclined anytime that [TS]

00:58:39 ◼   ► the the three sons are on the screen and [TS]

00:58:41 ◼   ► when it's there's no Peter to lure know [TS]

00:58:44 ◼   ► Katherine Hepburn go fix yourself a [TS]

00:58:46 ◼   ► drink because that means it's not much [TS]

00:58:48 ◼   ► of a movie then it's yet it's very slow [TS]

00:58:51 ◼   ► it's very pokey and its stages hell and [TS]

00:58:54 ◼   ► cognac and not in not in that ropeway [TS]

00:58:57 ◼   ► will be all those robbers stages hell [TS]

00:58:59 ◼   ► but Rome actually it works as a state [TS]

00:59:02 ◼   ► movie as theatre boy it it hurts to [TS]

00:59:05 ◼   ► watch this sometimes because of that is [TS]

00:59:07 ◼   ► your specific identity that is any [TS]

00:59:09 ◼   ► theatre boy rogues the streets looking [TS]

00:59:11 ◼   ► for clays lights please [TS]

00:59:14 ◼   ► and yeah it's it's just so aggressively [TS]

00:59:18 ◼   ► not filmic in a lot of scenes and [TS]

00:59:21 ◼   ► especially the wedding sequence where [TS]

00:59:23 ◼   ► they're all lined up in a row and the [TS]

00:59:25 ◼   ► camera doesn't even move it's like that [TS]

00:59:27 ◼   ► all like God to know that is that is [TS]

00:59:29 ◼   ► weird and it's just painful but I do [TS]

00:59:33 ◼   ► that it does let you concentrate the [TS]

00:59:34 ◼   ► language that's true i do love Hopkins [TS]

00:59:37 ◼   ► and I love watching him and especially [TS]

00:59:39 ◼   ► in the scene with with just him and [TS]

00:59:41 ◼   ► Dalton when he when he thinks they're [TS]

00:59:43 ◼   ► alone in Dalton's bedchamber where he is [TS]

00:59:46 ◼   ► again it's a very raw emotion for him [TS]

00:59:50 ◼   ► wherever he is he's trying to not be [TS]

00:59:52 ◼   ► vulnerable and still say dude did you [TS]